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The DVD Report #142: February 9, 2010
Joel and Ethan Coen have tried to make something profound in the guise of a black comedy with A Serious Man, one of ten films nominated for this year’s Best Picture Oscar. The film is a re-telling of The Book of Job from the First Testament, in which God sets terrible plagues upon a good…
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Site Design Under Construction
As you may be noticing, this page has been going through several changes today as I restructure and redesign it to its new form. My apologies if this is distracting or difficult to look at. In the end, it will be worth it, but for now, it does look like a mess. Please stick with…
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Precursor: Annie Awards
Below are the winners of the 37th Annie Awards. Winner Totals The Winners Animated Feature: Up Animated Short: Robot Chicken: Star Wars 2.5 Animated Effects: The Princess and the Frog – James Mansfield Character Animation: The Princess and the Frog – Eric Goldberg Character Design: Coraline – Shane Prigmore Directing: Pete Docter – Up Music:…
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Precursor: USC Scripter Winner
Best Adapted Screenplay Up in the Air Prediction Comparisons Wesley & Tripp were correct in their predictions.
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Precursor Predictions: Annie Awards & USC Scripter
Saturday, the Annie Awards and USC Scripter award winners will be announced. If they are available before I close the site down, I will post them. Otherwise, it may have to wait until after. But, until then, I’m posting our contributor’s fearless predictions for those awards. While my contemporaries are voting only on the Animated…
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Times, They Are A Changing
Starting late Saturday night, early Sunday morning, I will be transitioning this site to a new one. In order to do this, I will need to stop all updates to the site before the transition. My intention is to keep your login info and settings the same in the transition, but I make no promises.…
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82nd Annual Academy Awards Nominations
Below are the nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards as announced this morning by Academy president Tom Sherak and Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway. The winners will be announced on Sunday, March 7, 2010. The poster at the right is the official poster of the 82nd Academy Awards as announced yesterday. Nominations Tallies (9) Avatar;…
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The DVD Report #141: February 2, 2010
One of the year’s most eagerly anticipated films, Mira Nair’s Amelia turned out to be one of the year’s biggest disappointments. On a technical level, the film looks great. The period detail of the period from 1928 to 1937 is letter perfect and the recreation of the planes flown by Amelia Earhart are stunning, but…
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Reminder: Oscar Nominations
Tomorrow morning, the 82nd Annual Academy Awards nominations will be announced. You can find a list of the live categories and an alphabetical list here: Oscar Morning Tracking Sheet I’ll be posting the nominees as quickly as I can in a separate post I’ll start in the morning for you to follow along.
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7 Days to Oscar Morning: Day 7
If you’ve made it this far, you’ll recognize that there’s only one category left. Well, for those who are actually counting, there are two. Best Picture is what we’ll be discussing today. The Live Action Short Film category has not had an official list released by the Academy, so we won’t be covering it this…
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7 Days to Oscar Morning: Day 6
Only two days left until the grand announcement of the 82nd nominations for the Academy Awards. They’ll air live on Tuesday morning, February 2, 2010. In our penultimate day of coverage, we explore the Best Actor and Best Actress categories and the Best Editing and Best Cinematography categories. Which leaves the most important category for…
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Precursor: Online Film & Television Association Nominations
Below are the nominations for the 14th Annual Online Film & Television Association’s Film Awards. Each year, this group of film enthusiasts selects the best films, performances and technical achievements of the year. Their film branch selects nominees and winners in the winter and their television branch selects nominees and winners in the summer. Their…
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Precursor: Directors Guild of America Winners
Below are the winners for the Directors Guild of America Awards. Film Director: Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker TV Movie Director: Taking Chance Drama Series Director: Mad Men (Leslie Linka Glatter) Comedy Series Director: Modern Family Variety/Musical Director: The Inauguration of the President of the United States Documentary Director: The Cove Daytime Television Director:…
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Festival: Sundance Winners
Below are the Sundance Film Festival prizes. I’ve tried to break them into categories, but some of the breaks don’t feel right, but I’m not certain how else to break them up. Grand Jury Awards Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic: Winter’s Bone Grand Jury Prize, Documentary: Restrepo Audience Awards Dramatic Audience Award: happythankyoumoreplease Documentary Audience Award:…
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7 Days to Oscar Morning: Day 5
As we head into the final stretch of our 7 Days to Oscar Morning coverage in anticipation of the Tuesday, February 2, 2010 morning announcements of the 82nd nominations, we’re getting into some of the most important categories. We start off today looking at Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress and follow that up with Original…
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